Backroom Deals californiaprof.blogspot.com ... Regents promptly proceeded to approve 9.9% pay raises for three vice-chancellors (UCLA, UCI, UCSF) as well as for a number of university lawyers. But the lottery winner was indisputably UC Davis general counsel Steven Drown who got a whopping 21.9% salary raise (only UCDMC chief operating officer got a bigger raise, but medical center employees' salaries benefit from the revenue the bring to the University). Mr Drown was noted during the recent "events" at UC Davis for his very visible absence while the students' first amendment rights were being covered in orange pepper spray. Kamran Loghan, the man who helped the FBI invent pepper spray in the 1980s, said "he was shocked and bewildered" that his invention was "used against non-violent protesters at the University of California at Davis." "I saw it and the first thing that came to my mind wasn't police or students but my own children sitting down, having an opinion, and their being shot and forced by chemical agents," said Logham. He said that the incident at UC Davis employed completely improper and inappropriate use of his invention. "Normally pepper spray is used when there is a physical threat to the police officers or bystanders or there is a possibility of property damage and you see that things are going haywire," explained Logham. He said that police officers are, in those situations, justified to bring things under control by using a non-deadly force, like pepper ...cc

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